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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bergen or San Miguel de Allende?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bergen for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Bergen’s own page.

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bergen 20, San Miguel de Allende 4: Bergen leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, San Miguel de Allende 38: Bergen leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, San Miguel de Allende 40: Bergen leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Bergen 60, San Miguel de Allende 32: Bergen leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Bergen 74, San Miguel de Allende 48: Bergen leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, San Miguel de Allende 40: Bergen leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bergen
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BergenSan Miguel de Allende

Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110911
Elevation5 m1,900 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenSan Miguel de Allende
City population291,18969,811
People per km²3,339-
Museums within 10 km312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.